If I get this, 1616 is the fearless predatory hamster offspring released into the wild and then enhanced by Ezekiel and the birds in 1782 are successful experiments trapped and perverted by Ezekiel with some random old man. Doesn't explain the aborted reality bender, however.

Ezekiel is the old man in 1782. He is also the person in this article who is responsible for the "experiments". He is an unwitting reality bender and the results of his experiments are merely an exertion of his own will, not some newly discovered "Holy Science".

The reality bender, Daniel, was supposed to be the Begotten, but he was aborted midterm by his mother. He is twisted, not what he could have been. Ezekiel now exists more or less in Daniel's subconscious as of the events of 1782, as does his mother.

Wormwood, or Nibbles (1616) is just a lab rat with a specific trait of "the Christ", in that he can perform the miracle of gathering.

The birds can perform the miracle of resurrection, healing, and water walking.

Daniel was supposed to be able to perform all miracles and bring about the Second Advent.

Someone at this New Zealand research facility was performing genetic experiments in order to make better, more human test subjects, as well as to help improve the breeding rates of certain endangered species. Religious zealots took over the facility and attempted to use the results of the first experiments to bring about the Second Coming of Christ, but something went wrong and they attempted to abort the experiment, resulting in the weird birds that now inhabit the basement of the facility.

I'll read the SCPs this is supposed to be an origin story for to see if I can gain some insight, but until I think I have a solid grasp on what's going on, this is a novote.

Yes that is exactly what this is. They are zealots trying to bring about the Second Advent with science. The birds are discarded like you discard nuclear waste. They were just stepping stones to the human Subject Zero.

I cleaned up the image blocks so they're at least using the new templates' styles if not the templates themselves. This at least makes them more consistent with the standard SCP template, but feel free to revert if you don't like the way it looks.

I strongly recommend either relocating or removing that first collapsible as it's interacting very badly with floating elements such as the image blocks. If it is essential for containment, then I don't see why it needs to be hidden behind a collapsible. If it isn't, then as "Supplementary Material" it should probably be in an addendum at the end of the Description block. Either way, it looks really ugly as it is.

I uploaded a downsized version of the second image that isn't 1.25mb and switched the image blocks over to using the non-sandbox version of the images. Please delete the original image if you don't need it here.

It would appear that the initial link is too wide to fit in the narrow space above, so it autoflows to the first spot it can appear full-width. When clicked, the phrase becomes MUCH smaller, allowing it to actually flow in the space assigned. Yay templates!!